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Sydney Star Observer issue 1073
44 pages
Published by
Tomas Nemecek
Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1073 Wednesday 18 May 2011
NSW Governor at Aurora dinner
Marriage
rally to
go ahead
ANDREW M.
POTTS
An Adelaide protest for same-sex
marriage has...
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Australia’s leading gay and lesbian newspaper Est.
1979 www.
starobserver.
com.
au Issue 1073 Wednesday 18 May 2011
NSW Governor at Aurora dinner
Marriage
rally to
go ahead
ANDREW M.
POTTS
An Adelaide protest for same-sex
marriage has been disrupted by street
preachers, while Sydney’s May 21
marriageequalityrallywillgoaheadafter
initially being barred from its planned
locationbytheAnglicanChurch.
South Australian police removed at
least one of the preachers who were
shouting at the protesters through
megaphones and holding banners with
phrases including “the wages of sin is
death” and “as wax melts before the fire
so the wicked will perish at the presence
ofGod”.
A same-sex marriage supporter was
reportedly dragged from her wheelchair
when she grabbed hold of one of these
banners.
NSW Police decided in January that
people wishing to hold events beside
the Sydney Town Hall needed the
permission of the Anglican Diocese of
Sydney which owns most of Sydney
Square, and police emailed or
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